More specially Yuta is Classics Cliffjumper (the normal lead in the SG comic), all of his classmates are Shattered Glass Transformers, the one parent is a G1 Transformers, the black suited characters are all movie Dinobots, and some kaiju might be Gridman monsters mixed with different beast Transformers.

And then there's other Ultraman/Gridman references on top of that. None of this distracts from the show, btw. Seen the first 2 episodes. It's a good time.

So I guess it is safe to say as of episode 2 that the four suit characters, Samurai Calibur, Max, Borr, and Vitt are avatar forms of the 4 assist weapons. Also, like I said before, all four of them have been in tokusatsu as notable roles.

Would like to add that Ryosuke Takahashi who voices Samurai Calibur was also a guest role in Kamen Rider Wizard(somewhere between 10 and 20) and Aoi Yuki who voices Borr was Mari's younger self in Faiz.

I think I’ll have to eat my words from last week because episode 2 was really good. I didn’t see the cute little girl being a bad guy coming at all and I like how twisted she is. Teacher bumps into me and doesn't apologize? Whelp, here's a giant monster coming your way. And the twist that the city repairs and everyone forgets about the battles except that the people who died stay dead – wow.

I also really enjoy the "true" Gridman and his assist guys, the Samurai dude is hilarious, the scene where he tries to enter the shop and his swords get caught in the doorframe is hilarious.

The action is quite cool too - if this show keeps on going like this I might actually become a fan.

So I guess it is safe to say as of episode 2 that the four suit characters, Samurai Calibur, Max, Borr, and Vitt are avatar forms of the 4 assist weapons. Also, like I said before, all four of them have been in tokusatsu as notable roles.

Would like to add that Ryosuke Takahashi who voices Samurai Calibur was also a guest role in Kamen Rider Wizard(somewhere between 10 and 20) and Aoi Yuki who voices Borr was Mari's younger self in Faiz.

Whoa! Had no idea Takahashi had gotten into voice acting, that's pretty neat.

Third episode was an interesting one. We're introduced to an advanced kaiju and we get a look at how Rikka and Shou really feel about Yuta when things seemingly go south for Gridman.

Like all the episodes prior, this still feels like an actual existing toku series given an exact anime adaptation. And the Max Gridman fight was absolutely fantastic; Had me grinning like mad the moment the insert song kicked in.

I could point out the characters, the action-scenes or the animation: But what I want to highlight is that I love how they handle the combinations and general mecha design.

I noticed it with their short back then too where the robot had a half orange head with a screw in the back which was clearly inspired by the original toy with its translucent plastic light piping feature, but looking at Max Gridman...

I really like how you can see the clips, how "simple" the transformation is and how it all makes sense. Some shows like Netflix' Voltron go a long way to spice up the transformations sequence by adding extra machinery and stuff but with Gridman the panels just open, the arms go inside, done.

They take they toy and animate it, that's it. It's simple yet effective and as a collector I really appreciate how close this is to an actual physical object. They still take their liberties for action scenes but I really like how they translate toys into designs. Or in this case, design the mechas with real-world limitations so toy makers can translate it into plastic.

Whoa! Had no idea Takahashi had gotten into voice acting, that's pretty neat.

Judging by his Japanese Wikipedia page he seems to have started getting voice roles for anime as of this year. He has three other anime to his belt aside from this, but this seems to be his first anime where he has a named regular role.